Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Armathwaite School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA4 9SW
Wetheral · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wetheral
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA4 9SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA4
- Postcode sector
- CA4 9
- Latitude
- 54.830719
- Longitude
- -2.765865
- British National Grid easting
- 350,900
- British National Grid northing
- 548,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Wetheral · E05014214
- Parish or community
- E04002480
- Westminster constituency
- Carlisle · E14001152
- Output area
- E00097307
- Lower layer super output area
- Carlisle 007E · E01019250
- Middle layer super output area
- Carlisle 007 · E02003993
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Armathwaite School
Community school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CA4 9 residents
- 1,215
Age bands in CA4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 36.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
99 residents
76 residents
146 residents
313 residents
232 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Nearby transport
- 1.5 miles
Armathwaite Rail Station
RLY · Armathwaite
- 4.5 miles
Wetheral Rail Station
RLY · Wetheral
- 6.1 miles
Lazonby & Kirkoswald Rail Station
RLY · Lazonby
- 7.5 miles
Brampton (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Brampton
- 7.9 miles
Carlisle Rail Station
RLY · Carlisle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Carlisle 007E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,489 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.